Please accept my apology because I’ve been remiss. It’s been way too long since I shared a Monthly Mood Board, which is a shame, seeing as many of you have told me it’s your favorite part of the month over here. So, here I go, unofficially restarting what I never should have stopped. Here are 10 things that got me jazzed this March:

LISTEN: Checking out my friends from the band Geographer on their latest tour — Since I’m not lucky enough to hear them live everyday, their new album, Myth, has become a constant on my speakers this month.

FIND: Street art finds like this piece of Audrey Hepburn by Free Humanity — It’s proof there can be gorgeous discoveries in the urban jungle that is Hollywood and I love the romantic notion that “the best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

EAT: Linner (yes, that’s lunch and dinner in one meal) in Orange County’s Little Saigon — My hosts were the amazing Todd and Diane from White on Rice and we ate banh mi and pate chaud until I couldn’t anymore.

PICK: My own personal “Pick Your Own” adventure courtesy of Todd and Diane — They allowed me to roam about their garden with shears and I went into a citrus craze. I have been cooking with everything from blood oranges and Meyer lemon to kumquats and calamansi, courtesy of my fellow food friends.

READ: The well-crafted AFAR magazine — Before my former CHOW colleague, Davina Baum, began working there, I had never heard of of the travel magazine. It has quickly become a regular read for me because it’s written for savvy, inquisitive, well-traveled individuals — a group I hope to be a part of someday.

DO:. The cherry on top of this month was most definitely my participation in the first-ever Craftcation conference.

DOWNLOAD: Evan Kleinman’s Easy As Pie App — After sitting in on Evan’s pie-baking class at Craftcation, I was curious to check out her recently-released app. Though I have yet to bake from it, I’m drawn to it because she takes the anxiety of out pie baking because, in her words, “I’m not a perfectionist and yet I make delicious pies.”

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